DENVER — The Yankees’ “Get Fat Tour’’ is off to a miserable beginning and even with four games against the hapless Twins awaiting them in Minneapolis it’s very difficult to think it’s going to get increasingly better.

Eleven games against the Rockies and Twins was looked at by some as a golden chance for the Yankees to make a push upward in the AL East. Despite a solid lineup, the Rockies’ pitching was suspect and the Twins are easily the worst team in the American League.

Now, after getting swept in a two-game series against the Rockies the Yankees need to take four from the Twins. As for the talk the Yankees were going to waltz through the 11-game stretch, manager Joe Girardi didn’t want to hear it.

“We don’t look at it that way. These guys score a lot of runs,” Girardi said after the Rockies hung a 6-3 loss on the Yankees Wednesday in front of 40,093 sun-baked customers at Coors Field. “I don’t care who you play. If you don’t play well you are going to get your butts beat. We didn’t pitch well.”

The loss hiked the Yankees’ losing streak to four after they provided hope with a five-game winning streak last week at home. When they left for Minneapolis the Yankees were 31-34 and seven lengths back of the AL East-leading Orioles who were at Fenway Park Wednesday evening.

One night after the Rockies torched Nathan Eovaldi and the Yankees’ bullpen for 13 runs they didn’t let up against Ivan Nova.

“I was throwing the ball right over the middle of the plate and they took advantage of it,” Nova said of the Rockies’ fifth frame when they scored four runs and erased a 2-1 Yankees lead. “I wasn’t able to locate the pitches. I made a few mistakes and it cost us the game.”

While Nova (5-4) giving up five runs and 10 hits in five innings certainly was costly the Yankees managed seven hits — all singles — in a setting that houses hitting orgies almost nightly.

The game provided a scary moment in the sixth when Rockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu was drilled in the helmet by Anthony Swarzak’s 93-mph fastball. LeMahieu remained in the game and when Rockies reliever Miguel Castro’s first two pitches at 98 mph were up near Austin Romine’s head plate umpire Gabe Morales warned Castro and the dugouts. Morales correctly didn’t eject Dellin Betances in the seventh when a curveball went over Mark Reynolds’ head.

“I think [the warning] was warranted. Only [Castro] knows but it looked suspicious to me. If you are trying to send a message, I get that but it has to be down. It can’t be around someone’s head,” Girardi said. “We are not trying to hit anybody in the head. If you are trying to protect your guys I am okay with that, but it better be around his rear end and not his head.”

LeMahieu recovered well enough to hit an 88-mph changeup from Aroldis Chapman for an RBI triple in the eighth that hiked the Rockies’ lead to 6-3.

After Aaron Hicks’ bloop single scored a run in the sixth, the final 10 Yankee hitters went down quietly.

When talk of the “Get Fat Tour” surfaced last week, Girardi didn’t buy in. Instead, he said it was an important two weeks for his club. Now, he has expanded the stretch of importance.

“This is an important month. We can’t keep having months where we are not making up ground,” Girardi said. “If you are losing ground it’s going to be tough to catch up. We have to play better than the teams in front of us.”